Gerry Davis (screenwriter)

Gerry Davis (23 February 1930 - 1991) was a British television writer, best known for his contributions to the science-fiction genre. He also wrote for the soap operas Coronation Street and United!.

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23 February - 1930 - 1991 - British - Television - Science-fiction - Soap opera - Coronation Street - United!

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From 1966 until the following year he was the script editor on the popular BBC science-fiction series Doctor Who, for which he co-created the popular cybernetic monsters the Cybermen, who returned to the series on several occasions over the following twenty-two years. His fellow co-creator of these creatures was the programme's unofficial scientific adviser Dr. Kit Pedler, and following their work on Doctor Who, the pair teamed up again in 1970 when they created a science-fiction programme of their own, Doomwatch. Doomwatch ran for three seasons on BBC One from 1970 to 1972, and also spawned a novel written by Davis and Pedler, and later a cinema film and a 1999 revival on Channel 5.

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1966 - Script editor - BBC - Doctor Who - Cybermen - Kit Pedler - 1970 - Doomwatch - BBC One - 1972 - 1999 - Channel 5

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Davis briefly returned to writing Doctor Who, penning the original script for Revenge of the Cybermen, in 1975, though the transmitted version was heavily rewritten by the-then script-editor Robert Holmes. He also adapted several of his scripts into novelisations for Target Books.

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Revenge of the Cybermen - 1975 - Robert Holmes - Target Books

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In the 1980s Davis worked in America both in television and on feature films such as The Final Countdown (1980). In late 1989 he and Terry Nation made a joint but unsuccessful bid to take over production of Doctor Who and reformat the series mainly for the American market.

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1989 - Terry Nation

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